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Edition · November 22, 2021

The Daily Fuckup — November 22, 2021

2 verified reports published on November 22, 2021.

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Closing take

By the end of the day, the damage was no longer just rhetorical. The Trump operation was publicly splintering, the Arizona pressure campaign was on the record, and the election reversal fantasy was colliding with the hard reality of sworn officials who were done playing along.

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Trump and Giuliani’s Arizona pressure campaign backfires in plain sight

Arizona pressure Confidence 4/5
★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

New reporting and later-corroborated court materials point to Trump and Rudy Giuliani pressing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on November 22, 2021 with false claims about election fraud, trying to get him to help replace the state’s legitimate electors. It was a desperate push to turn a statehouse into a redo button for a lost election, and it only reinforced how far Trump’s circle was still willing to go with claims that had already been rejected again and again.

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Trump’s team tries to cut Sidney Powell loose after using her as a megaphone

Powell cleanup Confidence 5/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

On November 22, 2020, the Trump campaign said Sidney Powell was practicing law on her own and was not part of the Trump legal team. The statement was a public attempt to put distance between the campaign and one of the loudest promoters of its election-fraud claims after Powell had helped amplify them in the open.

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